Jessica Raine
Acting
Biography
Jessica Raine (born 20 May, 1982) is an English stage, film and television actress, best known for her roles as midwife Jenny Lee in the BBC drama Call the Midwife (2012–2014) and Doctor Who's first producer Verity Lambert in the biographical film An Adventure in Space and Time (2013). She has also portrayed Catherine Parr in the historical drama Becoming Elizabeth (2022).
Born: May 14, 1982
Place of Birth: Eardisley, Herefordshire, England, UK
Known For
Elsewhere
Nick and Cath head into the middle of nowhere, armed only with strange trinkets and a silver boombox. A journey of love, loss and destruction, all set to a mixtape cassette.
Line of Duty
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Black Shore
In the off-season British seaside town of Black Shore, Ben's world is turned upside down when his wife, Holly, mysteriously disappears.
An Adventure in Space and Time
Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.
Doctor Who
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
Patrick Melrose
A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
Call the Midwife
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Wolf Hall
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
Garrow's Law
The true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved guilty' at London's Old Bailey.
The Devil's Hour
Lucy wakes every night at exactly 3:33am. Nothing in her life has made sense for a long time. But the answers are out there, somewhere, at the end of a trail of brutal murders.
Filmography
as Lucy Chambers
as Catherine Parr
as Miss Fontaine
as Holly
as Billie
as Genevieve Taylor
as Emily Waters
as Julia
as Alison Laithwaite
as Annie Quaintain
as Tuppence
as Jules Sutter
as Jane Rochford
as Verity Lambert
as DC Georgia Trotman
as Nanny
as Jenny Lee
as Cath
as Princess Isabel of Gloucester
as Ann Porter
as Emma Grayling